Parco Virgiliano, Historical park in Piedigrotta, Naples, Italy

Parco Virgiliano is an archaeological site with Roman structures in Piedigrotta, Naples, located behind Santa Maria di Piedigrotta church. The grounds include several levels with a columbarium, the Neapolitan Crypt, and stone staircases that wind through vegetation to reach the different structures.

The site opened in 1930 to mark the two-thousandth anniversary of Virgil's death. Restoration work followed in 1976 to make the Roman remains and burial monuments accessible to visitors.

The sarcastic 1554 Latin epigraph outside Virgil's tomb, placed by canons of Santa Maria di Piedigrotta, questions whether the ashes are really his. Leopardi's remains were moved here on 22 February 1939 from San Vitale Martire in Fuorigrotta. A stele beside his marble altar tomb bears the signature of King Vittorio Emanuele III.

The entrance is on Salita della Grotta, behind the Santa Maria di Piedigrotta church, not across from Mergellina station. The route climbs past the piperno edicola with the 1668 plaques to Leopardi's marble tomb in the tuff grotto, then over the Roman gallery to Virgil's tomb. The Crypta Neapolitana is closed to visitors for safety pending restoration.

The Neapolitan Crypt preserves traces of medieval frescoes on its walls, which have faded over the centuries. Water conduits from the Augustan aqueduct of Serino still run through the site and testify to Roman engineering skill.